finally pulled the trigger and went to South Korea again last week..
went straight to Gwangju from the airport and for the first time ever in Korea, I experienced a heavy traffic in the interstate..
took 7 hours from Incheon to Gwangju, which is longer than the flight itself..

all in all, it's nice to finally be able to be back there..
went to Gwangju, Seoul, and Busan and had all the food I missed..
everything seems to have gone to normal, but Myeongdong still hasn't.. probably due to its heavy dependence on Chinese tourists..
markets like Gwangjang Market were full of people already, Insadong was also bustling..
Yeonnam-dong and Seongsu-dong seems to be the hip neighborhoods in Seoul now..
one new thing for me in Busan was the Huinyeoul Munhwa Maeul in Busan, which some people called "Busan's Santorini"..
to be honest, it's nowhere close haahaha.. but it's still a good place to check for its abundance of cafes and photospots..